As my colleague Jon Becker writes, Gary Radnich has been the undisputed king of the sports airwaves in the Bay Area for the last three decades.
KRON-TV 4 sportscaster Gary Radnich, right, prepares the evening sports broadcast with his producer Jason Applebaum at KRON-4 studios in San Francisco CA Friday Feb. 18, 2005. (Bay Area News Group Archives)

And now he’s hanging up his mic and earbuds and heading off-camera into retirement.

His real name is Gary Kelley Radunich and he was born on Feb. 2, 1950, making him 68 years old

He hosts The Gary Radnich Show weekday mornings on KNBR radio

He’s the lead sports anchor on KRON television

He was born in San Jose

He’s married to former KRON producer Alicia Radnich and between them they have six kids

He went to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

KNBR’s website says “he’s a true conversationalist, works his guests and callers like nobody else, and you can never predict what he’ll say next! If you’re lucky enough to ever see Gary on the street, ask him for a ride in his Bentley. He’ll say no, but it’s fun to ask.”

He was an All-American Basketball player at Del Mar High School and Branham High.

With basketball scholarship, he began his college career at Brigham Young University and then transferred to UNLV after two years, according to Wikipedia

While in Vegas, it says, “he received notoriety for his purple El Dorado Cadillac, known as (“Raddy’s Caddy”)”

He lives in San Francisco

According to a 2009 story in the Mercury News, Radnich, who went by his given name of Radunich back in his high-school days, averaged 16.6 points per game in West Valley Athletic League play as a junior at Del Mar.

In his senior year of 1968 at Branham, says the Mercury News, Radunich was the CCS scoring champion, averaging 26.1 per game, and also set a section single game scoring record with 47 points in a game against Saratoga, breaking the previous mark of 46 set by Dennis Awtrey of Blackford High School.

KRON anchorwoman Pam Moore once said she was never surprised when Radnich would arrive on the set at the very last minute: “I’ve been here since 1991, and he’s always done that,” Moore told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2005. “I don’t know if it’s the way his adrenaline kicks in or the way his energy works, but that’s not for style or for show. That’s just the way he is.”

He once joked about Doug McConnell, host of “Bay Area Backroads” that came on after his show: “I love ‘Backroads, he says, commenting on McConnell’s tightly fitted jeans. “The tighter the jeans, the more I lean forward.”

Patrick May is an award-winning writer for the Bay Area News Group working with the business desk as a general assignment reporter. Over his 34 years in daily newspapers, he has traveled overseas and around the nation, covering wars and natural disasters, writing both breaking news stories and human-interest features. He has won numerous national and regional writing awards during his years as a reporter, 17 of them spent at the Miami Herald.